Latest PC Upgrades How-To

Delicate electrical components such as CPUs can be fall victim to the danger of being fried by static electricity. To avoid accidentally shorting out your hardware when performing repairs or modifications, read our guide on how to properly ground yourself before touching a CPU.

If you're upgrading your PC you can spend hours deciding which are the best components to use. We make that decision a little easier by discussing the differences between the Z97 Express and Z87 Express chipset motherboards.

Two motherboards may be very similar, but it doesn’t take much difference to render their BIOS files incompatible with one another. Here's why you shouldn't update one motherboard BIOS with a different motherboard's BIOS file.

One reader found that his PC wasn't able to boot in UEFI mode. He kept getting the error message: 'OptionRom Authenticate fail'. It turned out his graphics card isn't compatible with UEFI booting. Here's how to deal with problems with OptionRom.